ists in the damaging of goods or
machinery.

"2. Open-mouthed sabotage, beneficial to the ultimate consumer, and
which consists in exposing or defeating fraudulent commercial
practices.

"3. Obstructionism or passive sabotage, which consists in carrying
out orders literally, regardless of consequences.

"If you are an engineer you can, with two cents' worth of powdered
stone or a pinch of sand, stall your machine, cause a loss of time
or make expensive repairs necessary. If you are a joiner or
woodworker, what is simpler than to ruin furniture without your
boss noticing it, and thereby drive his customers away? A garment
worker can easily spoil a suit or a bolt of cloth; if you are
working in a department store, a few spots on a fabric cause it to
be sold for next to nothing; a grocery clerk, by packing up goods
carelessly, brings about a smashup; in the woolen or the
haberdashery trade a few drops of acid on the goods you are
wrapping will make a customer furious ... an agricultural laborer
may sow bad seed in wheat fields," etc.

"With two cents' worth of a certain stuff, used by one who knows, a
locomotive can be made absolutely useless."

"The first thing to do before going out on strike is to cripple all
the machinery. Then the contest is even between employer and
worker, for the cessation of work really stops all life in the
capitalists' camp. Are bakery workers planning to go on strike? Let
them pour in the ovens a few pints of petroleum or of any other
greasy or pungent matter. After that, soldiers or scabs may come
and bake bread. The smell will not come out of the tiles for three
months. Is a strike in sight in steel mills? Pour sand or emery
into the oil cups."

"The electrical industry is one of the most important industries,
as an interruption in the current means a lack of light and power
in factories; it also means a reduction in the means of
transportation and a stoppage of the telegraph and telephone
systems. How can the power be cut off? By the curtailing in the
mine the output of the coal necessary for feeding the machinery or
stopping the coal cars on their way to the electrical plants. If
the fuel reaches its destination what is simpler than to set the
pockets on fire and have the coal burn in the yards in